Fuel surveillance and accountability at the Texas A and M NSCR
Creators
- 1. Texas A and M University, College Station, TX (United States)
Description
The record keeping requirements established by CFR 70.51 (SNM balance, inventory, and records requirements), CFR 70.53 (SNM status report) and fuel surveillance as per technical specifications have been simplified for the NSCR by use of a small computer (DEC PDP 11/05). Prior to its utilization, fuel records and calculation of fuel depletion were performed by hand and required several man-hours. A fuel inventory program for the determination of fuel depletion, beginning and ending inventory, and records of fuel location, steady state energy and pulse energy on an element by element basis is presented. The requirement of plutonium production calculations and reporting for the NSCR is also discussed. (author)
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Additional details
Publishing Information
- Imprint Title
- TRIGA owners' conference 6. Papers and abstracts
- Imprint Pagination
- 204 p.
- Journal Page Range
- p. 5.1-5.3
- Report number
- INIS-US--09N0149
Conference
- Title
- 6. TRIGA owners' conference
- Dates
- 26 Feb - 2 Mar 1978
- Place
- Corvallis, OR (United States)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 40029025
- Subject category
- S21: SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- COMPUTERS; INVENTORIES; NUCLEAR FUELS; PLUTONIUM; SPECIFICATIONS; STEADY-STATE CONDITIONS
- Descriptors DEC
- ACTINIDES; ELEMENTS; ENERGY SOURCES; FUELS; MATERIALS; METALS; REACTOR MATERIALS; TRANSURANIUM ELEMENTS
Optional Information
- Notes
- Abstract on p. xvi; 1 fig.
- Secondary number(s)
- TOC--10